My great great grandfather Richard Jones and his wife Deborah (maiden name Hill) emigrated to Australia from County Wicklow, Ireland, aboard the Joseph Soames in 1850, arriving in Adelaide, South Australia. Their eldest son William George was born on board ship and their eldest daughter Elizabeth Ann (my great grandmother) was born in Adelaide in 1852. Sometime between this event and the birth of their next child Thomas Charles in 1853, the family moved to North Melbourne, Victoria. By the time of the birth of their daughter, Louisa Ann, in 1859, the family had shifted to Brunswick, another suburb of Melbourne. In early 1877, Richard Jones selected 320 acres of land at Yalca near Nathalia. Richard Jones died in 1885 at Yalca and is buried in the Numurkah cemetery.